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What message was the author of Acts seeking to convey, and what would the original audience have understood? How is God using Acts to speak to believers today? In this addition to the Catholic Commentary on Sacred Scripture, respected New Testament scholar William Kurz offers a close reading and explanation of the entire narrative of Acts, grounded in the original Greek but keyed to the NAB for...

Moses (Exod 19:16–19) and Elijah (1 Kings 19:11–13). The sign of fire especially recalls the Baptist’s prophecy that the One to come “will baptize you with the holy Spirit and fire” (Luke 3:16). Yet Luke most emphasizes the sign that they were all filled with the holy Spirit so that they began to speak in different tongues. In this context the Greek word glossai, literally, “tongues,” is better translated as “other languages” (NRSV), since it was the ordinary word used for languages. 2:5–10 The listeners
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